I thought "guys" was accepted as gender-neutral now, like "dude". That said, in trying to force congruence in my idiolect, I once referred to a woman as "this

I thought "guys" was accepted as gender-neutral now, like "dude". That said, in trying to force congruence in my idiolect, I once referred to a woman as "this guy", and it felt so wrong. It still feels wrong. My mind reels in disgust as I'm typing these words right now. It doesn't work. So maybe we need to go the other way. But why does "dude" work? Also, everyone becoming agender when? It's the best way to cut the knot and have egalitarianism. Seriously I mean come on already. Unless the concept of gender is a psychological technology that gives people with gender dysphoria a target to aim at while they reconcile their inscrutable brain-body disagreements and so abolishing gender would harm their therapy. Unless² those disagreements stem from our still having genders. Let's hope that what it is because damn. Unless³ gender is also a biologically-salient component of people to the point where we can't ignore it without it resurfacing and re-creating the problems we tried to get rid of it to begin with for. I hate everything.[0] 0: http://www.chicagonow.com/listing-beyond-forty/2017/05/40-gender-neutral-alternatives-to-saying-you-guys/ http://www.chicagonow.com/listing-beyond-forty/2017/05/40-ge...